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Special to WorldTribune May 8, 2019
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It’s ironic that, just weeks after firing journalists behind a broadcast critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros, the head of the U.S. government’s international media networks is …

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George Soros is known for championing liberal causes across the globe, an effort that had sparked backlash in his native Hungary. Recent reports hint that Soros’ massive grants are used by groups …

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Two Jewish American political consultants are said to have deliberately started a smear campaign against businessman George Soros as part of their plans to help Hungry's Prime Minister Victor Orbán.
George Birnbaum and Arthur Finkelstein reportedly …

George Soros has been named the Financial Times Person of the Year for being the 'standard bearer for liberal democracy’ as it comes under siege from ‘Putin's Russia and Trump's America'.
The London-based newspaper said it was honouring the …

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The Financial Times named billionaire financier George Soros person of the year Wednesday for being a “standard bearer for liberal democracy” and an opponent of Europe’s growing populist …

TV Martí, which aims broadcasts at Cuba, aired a segment in May that called financier and Democratic donor George Soros, a long-time opponent of authoritarianism, “a nonbelieving Jew of flexible morals.”
Voice of America, the flagship of US government …

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s broadcast service to the world has a problem: It is becoming the news itself.
TV Martí, which aims broadcasts at Cuba, aired a segment in May that called financier and Democratic donor George Soros, a longtime opponent of …

Ms. Gong was fired last month. She is contesting her dismissal.
The agency’s standards editor, Steven Springer, a former CNN journalist, said he has struggled to instill a culture of political balance in the Cuba office, where the broadcast maligning Mr. …

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Since the establishment of MTSU’s Political Economy Research Institute, students and faculty have rallied against it due to a connection to the Charles Koch Foundation, which, they say, has been known to dispense money in …

Where does George Soros find the time? To hear the loon-o-sphere tell it, the Hungarian-born liberal Jewish billionaire, at the ripe old age of 88, has been exceedingly industrious. He dismantled the Soviet Union, launched coups in four Eastern European …

The payments by Singer-owned Washington Free Beacon to GPS Fusion for “opposition research” on candidate Donald Trump in early 2016 and the recent announcement by Soros that he was transferring billions of dollars in his own personal wealth to his Open …

WITH the midterm elections well and truly under way, fake news is running rampant.
Online trolls have been sharing a video showing Democrats appearing to burn the American flag while CNN anchor Don Lemon laughs about it.
The video meme, which uses video …

Three years ago, Hungary’s prime minister accused billionaire George Soros of trying to flood the country with Middle Eastern migrants.
In recent weeks, a similar allegation against Soros has emerged in the US: internet conspiracy theorists and some …

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